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HRISHIKESH ROY, S. V. N. BHATTI
Pawapuri Rice Mills – Appellant
Versus
Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation Ltd. – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
S.V.N. BHATTI, J.
1. Common issues of fact and law arise in the instant batch of Appeals under the Bihar and Orissa Public Demands Recovery Act, 1914 (for short ‘the Act’) and the Bihar and Orissa Public Demands Recovery Rules (for short ‘the Rules’) hence, these Appeals are disposed of by this Judgment.
I. BACKGROUND
2. The appellants in Civil Appeal No. 1890 of 2023 and Civil Appeal No. 1889 of 2023 are rice millers in the State of Bihar. The first respondent in the Civil Appeals is the State of Bihar, and the fourth respondent is the Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation. For convenience, the appellants are referred to as ‘Rice Millers’ and the contesting respondents as the ‘State’ and ‘Civil Supplies Corporation’ respectively. The subject matter of the Appeals relates to the procurement of Custom Milled Rice (for short ‘CMR’) for the procurement year 2011-12 in the State of Bihar. The subject procurement policy departs from the previous policy of collecting levy rice from the Rice Millers. As is known from practice and scheme, levy rice is a system requiring millers to sell a percentage of their rice to the Government at a particular price. Under the levy ric
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